The Northern Lights lit up skies across Scotland on Sunday evening.
The Met Office confirmed the lights were “observed across Scotland, clearly visible from Shetland webcams, and sightings reported across some central and eastern parts of England”.Eilidh Grant Leslie said they could see the lights over Houston Primary School in Johnstone
Professor Don Pollacco, department of physics at the University of Warwick, said the phenomenon was caused by “the interaction of particles coming from the sun, the solar wind, with the Earth’s atmosphere – channelled to the polar regions by the Earth’s magnetic fields”.He added: “It’s actually a bit like iron filings and the field of a bar magnetic.
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